With five days to go until the publication of wave twenty-four of @iambapoet.com, a sneak peek at the new indices page coming to the journal in 2026. You'll be able to scroll left and right to navigate between waves – and have less far to scroll down. There'll also be an improved search function.

The Shropshire Union Canal and such an autumn for berries.

the usual reminder that periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics is open to submissions of previously unpublished poetry-related reviews, interviews, essays and translations; yes, please! periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2020/03/subm...

What a year! The ending notes are as high (and magnificent) as the opening ones were. My #microchap #SpeakUpSpeakOut (includes some #poemsabout) is one of four included in #BookTen #FourFeathersPress #SpringRelease @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk #StayCreative #YouNeverKnow

Thank you to all who came to our AGM & celebratory readings last night! We were so pleased to be joined by members in the Poetry Cafe and online via Zoom to reflect on a busy 2024-25. Special thanks to Sarah Howe, AV Bridgwood, Marilyn Longstaff & Leena Tageldin, who read their work after the AGM!

Calling all young poets: it's finally here! The challenge: write a sonnet. Enter by 18 January for the chance to be published on Young Poets Network and sent poetry goodies including ebooks and poetry posters. Find prompts and enter: bit.ly/SonnetChallenge (linked in our bio).

A few pics from our #NationalPoetryDay open mic in the Poetry Cafe. Wondering when our next open mic is? Wonder no more! It's on 11 December, headlined by the legendary John Hegley. Bring your wintery poems to share, or simply come along and watch. Book at poetrysociety.org.uk/event/the-po...

‘Here was youth in all its undying glory: rude red health, perverse and powerful, and dumb, so dumb, dumb as shit, really.’ Sean Tanner’s ‘How Soon Unaccountable’ — first published in Issue 7 — is now available to read on our website. www.tolkajournal.org/read-online/...

Wind warns November’s done with. The blown leaves make bat-shapes, Web-winged and furious. Sylvia Plath

Our DECEMBER NEWSLETTER - our anthology, launch, open mics, a workshop and so much more! blackboughpoetry.com/so/aePhMQGQI?l…

"Araby" extract—James Joyce

Cypress trees, Monterey, California Paul Outerbridge, 1950

Tomorrow at 6pm, join archivist Stella Halkyard at the Lit & Phil Library in Newcastle, where she will be reading from and discussing her recent Carcanet book, Library Lives. Tickets are 'pay as you wish', and can be booked here: www.litandphil.org.uk/event/a-book...

And huge congratulations go to the story winner @penny-walker-sd.bsky.social and poetry winner @elizafevwrites.bsky.social 👏👏👏 Thanks to @walklistencreate.org for a brilliant evening and to the judges Chantal Lyon’s, Matthew Beaumont, Damaris West & @marcellenewbold.bsky.social 🙏🙏🙏

An immense pleasure today to receive from @walklistencreate.org the anthology of shortlisted poems & stories in the Walking in the Dark competition (supporting Women Walking, the City, at Night). Beautifully presented. My poem Devon Gothic is accompanied by a wonderfully atmospheric image

Thrilled to see my collection on this list and in such fine company.

Winter flowering cherry just starting to blossom for #WildflowerHour

Lovely review of my (first ever😱) short story in great company as part of @tramppress.bsky.social beautiful An Alternative Irish Christmas anthology in yesterday's @irishtimes.com Very humbling & gratifying to see these kind words about the work. ✨️

A joy to see After Party is one of The Times six poetry collections of the year!

I never stop being grateful to editors who include my poems in their anthologies/journals... it continues to bring excitement and encouragement!! Thanks muchly to @alanparrywriter.co.uk for including my sort of coming-of-age poem in this great looking volume now published by @thebrokenspine.co.uk 🙏

Stocking filler for under a tenner. Beautifully brutal. Quietly radical. This one says more in 50 pages than most say in 400. @martinkennedyyates.bsky.social #ThisWilderness www.amazon.co.uk/Wil...

I may have got a little over-excited and opened entries a little early. I'm not going to start reading until Monday, but if you want to send something over the weekend, you are welcome to do so: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...

Powerful edition of Radio 4's The Verb. Rare insights from doctor, soldier & poet Tim Hodgetts. Eloquent Russian anti-war writing introduced by Julia Nemirovskaya and Robert Chandler. Inspiring, and finally warmed by a wise love-letter to experience from @holliemcnish.bsky.social! LINK IN COMMENTS!

What in the name of the Infernal Library of the Goblin King is that!!??

Banshee celebrates ten years in print @booksupstairs.bsky.social next Thursday 4 December! Join us from 6pm to raise a glass to the publication of issue 20 and hear from our brilliant contributors. Hosted by guest editor @clarakiyoko.bsky.social 🎄 booksupstairs.ie/all-events/l...

Super grateful to the @madridlitmag.bsky.social for choosing a poem of mine for their stunning new issue, which is out now ❤️

What a breath of fresh air this little volume by @richardnskinner.bsky.social is! I explain why in this review: valeriavescina.com/2025/11/24/r... 'Hope you enjoy! @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social

Plotting is finding the desire lines through your story. #StartToWrite @faber_academy

If you're near Pickering & are free next Friday evening, then you are strongly advised to take a break from Christmas shopping & head to Pickering Book Tree for my book event! It would be lovely to see you there. Tickets are free & can be booked here: www.pickeringbooktree.co.uk/event/amanda...

'Kepler believed the planets each had their own pitch, defined by their orbits’ nearest and furthest points from the sun. Mercury sings soprano, the earth alto, and so on. The maternal earth singing to its children.' 'The Blue Hour' Angelina D'Roza Out now longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

“Fascism was, in every way, Surrealism’s political and aesthetic doppelganger, its evil twin.” www.equator.org/articles/sur...

Michael Hofmann channels you-know-who: ”Gold: anything that glitters, one letter away from golf / Golf: golf, the game of kings, one letter away from gold / Failing: of limited distribution, but sinisterly and uncannily accurate / Winning: losing” www.equator.org/articles/-ho...

On Thursday 4 December at 6.30pm, join Evan Jones in Manchester for the Northern Fiction Alliance Winter Showcase. Evan will be reading from his latest Carcanet collection Men of the Same Name, alongside 4 other authors from other northern presses. Tickets:⬇️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/northern-f...

🖤SATURDAY #Giveaway for e(i7🖤 FREE to read, download, & share! buff.ly/Z8rgDrq Interact w this post thru the weekend to help boost our contributors & we'll send you FREE STICKERS! #poetry #poetrycommunity #poet #poets #writingcommunity #indielit #indiepress #indiemag #writerscommunity

Winter flowering cherry starting to blossom. 🌸

‘All through Tuesday the air smelled like one big orange slice’ - Hannah Copley @hannahcopley.bsky.social

Oh, very sad news. It was Rozencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead that did it for me, plus a line from Caught on a Train where the character was asked what books she read and responded with a colour.

The Storms issue V Pushcart Prize nominees @helenlaycock.bsky.social @seanmcnicholl.bsky.social 💙💙🎉🎉

The Storms issue V Pushcart Prize nominees Maire T. Robinson Chris Jones 💙💙🎉🎉

The Storms issue V Pushcart Prize nominees Jo Morrigan Black @lenaozge.bsky.social 💙💙🙏🙏

And our 2025 Pushcart Prize nominations are…

Coming tomorrow, our Pushcart Prise nominations After heartbreaking weeks, bringing the submissions down to 89, @rhonagreene.bsky.social & myself wanted to nominate all 89 as they are all truly remarkable, our visual artists too! Tomorrow, we will toast 6 but celebrate 89, it’s been an honour 💙

Sand ripples running off into the distance. County Clare, Ireland.

Ball play with Fiadh on a mirrored sunset. County Clare, Ireland.

"The Enforcer" An adult Rook (Corvus frugilegus) - one of the seven crow species commonly found in Ireland. They include Ravens, Hooded crows, Rooks, Jackdaws, Magpies, Choughs and Jay's. County Clare, Ireland.

🎉 We are finally back to roadrunner weather and guess who shows up! Ravi looks no worse for the extended period of rain, he must have a safe dry hideout. #birds Sunday surprise

If you missed the first of Jean Sprackland's curated events for Night Vision last month, you can watch back on the link below. #PoetrySky @dcahf-met.bsky.social @mcrcityoflit.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=efPv...

The upcoming third of three curated events by Jean Sprackland to celebrate the launch of her new non-fiction book Night Vision, is on 4th December. In conversation with @danzep.bsky.social & Helen McGhie, to discuss all things night & darkness. Online tickets: www.mmu.ac.uk/poetry-libra...